Bombarral

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Bombarral
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Bombarral Coat of Arms
Bombarral (Portugal)
Bombarral
Basic data
Region : Centro
Sub-region : Oeste
District : Leiria
Concelho : Bombarral
Freguesia : União das Freguesias do Bombarral e Vale Covo
Coordinates : 39 ° 16 ′  N , 9 ° 9 ′  W Coordinates: 39 ° 16 ′  N , 9 ° 9 ′  W
Bombarral district
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Flag of Bombarral Location of Bombarral District
Residents: 13,193 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 91.28 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 145 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities : 4th
administration
Administration address: Câmara Municipal de Bombarral
Câmara Municipal
2540-046 Bombarral
President of the Câmara Municipal: José Manuel Vieira
Website: www.cm-bombarral.pt

Bombarral is a small town ( Vila ) in Portugal with 5668 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011). It is located in the Oeste sub-region .

As part of the territorial reform of September 29, 2013 , the municipalities of Bombarral and Vale Covo were merged to form the new municipality of União das Freguesias do Bombarral e Vale Covo . Bombarral is the seat of this newly formed community.

history

The Batalha da Roliça (picture from 1815)

Finds of grave sites prove a settlement back to the Neolithic . The current place was first officially mentioned in the 13th century as Mon Barral . A first attempt to form an independent district from the municipality Bombarral failed in 1535 due to resistance from the district administration Óbidos , to which Bombarral belonged.

In the course of the Napoleonic Wars on the Iberian Peninsula , on August 17, 1808, the French troops under Delaborde met the Portuguese-British defense forces under General Wellington . From the battle called Batalha da Roliça , the defense forces emerged victorious.

In 1836 Bombarral became part of Cadaval County , and in 1855 it was re-incorporated into Óbidos. It was not until 1914 that the independent Bombarral district was created. In 1944 the place was elevated to a vila (small town).

administration

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Bombarral is the administrative seat of a district of the same name ( concelho ) in the Leiria district . On June 30, 2011 the district had 5668 inhabitants on an area of ​​91.3 km². The neighboring areas are (starting clockwise in the north): Óbidos , Caldas da Rainha , Cadaval and Lourinhã .

With the territorial reform in September 2013, the municipalities ( Freguesias ) Bombarral and Vale Covo were merged to form the new municipality União das Freguesias do Bombarral e Vale Covo . Since then, the district has consisted of the following four municipalities.

Bombarral district
local community Population
(2011) 		Area
km² 		Density of
population / km² 		LAU
code
Bombarral e Vale Covo 6,821 29.54 231 100506
Carvalhal 2,634 32.34 81 100502
Pó 930 6.77 137 100505
Roliça 2,808 22.63 124 100503
Bombarral district 13,193 91.28 145 1005

Population development

Population in Bombarral County (1920–2011)
1920 1930 1960 1981 1991 2001 2011
11.206 12,669 15.209 13,758 12,727 13,324 13,193
Azulejos in Bombarral train station

Municipal holiday

  • June 29th

Town twinning

traffic

Bombarral is a stop on the Linha do Oeste railway line . The place is also connected with junction no. 11 to the A8 motorway that runs here .

sons and daughters of the town

  • Francisco Pedro de Mendonça Gorjão

  • José Célio Mil-Homens Filipe (caricature by Carlos Melo)

  • Margarida Marques

Web links

Commons : Bombarral  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  2. ↑ Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
  3. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on October 1, 2014
  4. ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed January 18, 2013
  5. ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  6. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
  7. ↑ www.anmp.pt , accessed on January 18, 2013

gallery

  • In the Buddha Eden Park

  • In Bombarral, in the background the Quinta das Cerejas mansion

  • Quinta das Cerejas mansion clad in azulejos in Bombarral

  • In the Buddha Eden Park

  • The main church of Bombarral

  • Landscape of the Serra de Montejunto in the district